GTA VI
The price of the "standard" edition for PS5 and Series X was announced yesterday. $79.99.
That's high, obviously, but it's also the one game that could get away with it.
The only problem is that it's effectively much higher than that.
Rockstar also announced that the "physical" copies of the game just come with a case and a code for download.
In other words, no reselling.
There was an entire ecosystem of used GTA V copies being resold over and over again. For GTA VI, that ecosystem won't exist.
This is why charging $80 for the game is ridiculous. Rockstar is already going to have much higher profits from the game because it can't be resold. They don't need to be charging $10 over what is already an inflated price point for AAA games.
If I owned the stock, I'd be thrilled with their announcement. As a consumer, though, they can pound sand.
[UPDATE: Rockstar is now claiming there will be a physical disk available "in the coming months." They appear to be scrambling in response to how pissed people are about their original announcement; if this was already planned, they would have announced it at the same time. I could actually see an "ultra deluxe" collector's edition with disc for $120+ with limited availability, which would have a minimal effect on the resale market.]
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